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10 - Community benefits from long-term research programs: a case study from Kibale National Park, Uganda

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2010

By
John M. Kasenene  and
Elizabeth A. Ross
Edited by
Richard Wrangham  and
Elizabeth Ross
Richard Wrangham
Affiliation:
Harvard University, Massachusetts
Elizabeth Ross
Affiliation:
Kasiisi School Project, Uganda
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The authors of this chapter have known each other for 20 years. For the past 10 years we have been partners in The Kasiisi Project, a project that invests in primary schools in the forest-edge communities around Kibale National Park. We represent the two sides of the Ugandan “aid coin:” expatriate donor (The Kasiisi Project) and Ugandan recipient (AFROKAPS). We share a commitment to common goals but, because of our different cultural backgrounds, we sometimes approach them in different ways. We recognize that our priorities may differ and we do not always agree with each other. Local pressures and community expectations on either side of the Atlantic shackle us both and misunderstandings occasionally arise, but 20 years have given us a foundation of familiarity and friendship that has enabled us to work effectively as a team. Together, we have built a successful project that now works with five schools and 3500 children.

This chapter looks at the ways in which long-term research programs in Kibale National Park (KNP) have brought benefits to local, national and international communities and how this, in turn, can have positive implications for conservation. Our main focus is on small community projects, started by mainly expatriate researchers and their families. We suggest that the biggest contribution of long-term research programs to these projects is the fostering of alliances between expatriates and nationals. We believe that our experience is probably typical of projects that involve western researchers interacting with tropical forest communities (Collins and Goodall, Chapter 14).

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Science and Conservation in African Forests
The Benefits of Longterm Research
 , pp. 99 - 114
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2008

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